skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd expand on your point (2) with these points.

1. Dams require water. Australia has suffered water supply challenges as long as I've been alive.

2. Dams can be environmental disasters. Both building, maintaining and one day destroying these has a lot of challenges and expenses that we're not great at measuring.
Again, you don't seem to have much historical knowledge of the situation and instead are pushing some kind of German superiority propaganda, as suggested by your other comments.

I suggest reading more about how Prussia (and Russia) deliberately sought to eradicate Polish culture and the Polish language, long before the Nazis, starting here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanisation_of_Poles_durin...

The rest of your comment is just hand-waving, wishy-washy nonsense that lacks any sort of coherent thesis, probably because you're indirectly trying to argue that Germany is superior to Poland, which is obvious, again, because of your blatantly misleading comments throughout this thread.

P.S: you forgot to log out of your alt account when replying to me. Hilarious that you replied to your own comment (as as michael9423) with "Excellent contribution."
It's great but I hope it don't catch on because then every website will make me download models. My hard drive will be full, too much bloat. I think the web is not good for this.

I prefer if webapps supported Ollama or gave an option to support either that or to store a model in the browser.

Or at least make it an extension
The article is talking about checks for criminal history in the context of employment. Any leap you make to the effects of laws banning entirely different kinds of background checks in an entirely different context is...well, a leap.

On top of that, the article reports on the results of a single behavioral study, which while interesting, is hardly conclusive. A few minutes on Google scholar is enough to find other papers casting doubt on its results: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b69fbe78f51306042d1d...
As a Canadian driver, I'll take an ugly 90's era stalk over a touchscreen any day of the week.

Teslas seem great if you live in California though.
how long you been doing hiring mon ami? that's been a thing since long before AI, the difference is that instead of getting slammed via Craigslist, now AI can handle Taleo
What documentary is that?
Actually with vaping it becomes pretty easy to quit. You just taper down the nicotine slowly until you're on nothing and eventually you just kind of stop because you don't feel the need to do it anymore.
The issue is how culpable civilians are in Hamas' atrocities.

The Israeli government is currently at ~30 killed Palestinians for each 1 killed Israeli.

Presumably, whatever anyone's opinion, there's some ratio that is unjust. Or is killing every Palestinian in Gaza just?

Last I checked, Exodus' Covenant Code [0] was also pretty clear on this, and it didn't include any multiple.

>> Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

[0] https://www.biblestudytools.com/exodus/21.html
n-grams will be able to figure out

4 + 5 = 9

or

1729 is a taxicab number

if those phrases are in the database but not

4 + 05 = 9

5 + 4 = 9

11 + 3 = 14

48988659276962496 is a taxicab number

if those are not in the database.
Aren’t nicotine’s vasoconstriction worse than coffee’s (at regular consumption levels)?
I'm relatively new to both and love them both for what they do well. Duck is "in process" like SQLite. Clickhouse is a client/server model like most other databases.

Duck is currently more optimized for the analyst or whomever working locally, importing and cleaning data - it's incredibly generous and well optimized for importing many different formats and handling all manner of CSV varieties etc. It's fast and fun to work with but being in process it's not optimized for, say, setting up remotely as the backend for a BI thing like Metabase and then running typical ETL processes to bring in new data. Only 1 process is allowed to connect at a time, so Metabase would sit on that and then you can't import new data in another process. (There is a RO connect mode where multiple processes can connect to read, but nothing is allowed to write if something else is connected.)

Clickhouse feels more like a traditional data warehouse solution, but wicked fast. It's a lot more fussy with getting data in - it's not nearly as generous with importing CSV for example - but once it's in and in the CH native format it is jaw-droppingly fast. Its compression scheme(s) is super efficient and it's also quite fun to play with.

I'm on a BigQuery backed data stack at my job but dream about usecases where we might employ Clickhouse for something more specialized. I use Duck when I'm building an analysis - rather than constantly connecting to BQ I'll just bring the base data into DuckDB locally and then work from there.

I also use them together on a side project of mine - I eat questionable CSV with Duck, then save it to Parquet which Clickhouse will easily handle.
The purpose of my original comment wasn't to accurately depict LLMs, but to introduce the properties of people that cause us to write/speak etc. which LLMs aren't sensitive to. The point was to answer the question, "in what ways arent we just doing the same?"

The point of the LLM bit is that the property of the world that LLMs are sensitive to is the distribution of text tokens in their training data. Regardless of which features of this distribution any given AI model captures, it is necessarily a model of the dataset's actual P(token|tokens..).

In the case of LLMs its a very high dimensional model so that P(word|previous words) is actually modelled by something like: P(word|P(prompt embedding space|answer embedding space) | ...) -- but this makes no difference to the "arent we doing the same?" question. We dont use frequency associations between parts of a historical corpus when we speak.
Since the actual set of coverages are set by law, and heavily regulated what you are saying makes no sense.

Or are you saying you signed up for insurance that doesn’t cover fire disasters in these now discovered high risk fire zones? Because if so, yikes.

Because you’re on the hook now. You might as well have signed something on your health insurance saying you don’t need coverage if you get cancer.

Insurance companies definitely paid out during prior disasters for insureds, which is why the insurance companies took such heavy losses. Over $12 billion in California in 2018 alone. [https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2...]

So if you voluntarily aren’t getting fire damage coverage in a high risk fire zone? Yikes.

If you somehow are believing that the insurance company would never have paid you if it happens, but they’ll charge you less if you don’t get the coverage? I have no words.
Egypt is a military dictatorship, so it's no surprise when it bans media organizations.
Could you expand on what is wrong with the synchronization primitives in Wayland protocol?
It's arguably not propaganda to publish an article quoting a member of the Ukrainian military. It's even in the headline right there: "Ukraine military claims".

If you think the output of RT and the Independent are indistinguishable then yeah I guess we just will never agree. Still, glad my country banned RT nevertheless. If the only downside is the odd anti-west tankie on HN crying about "hypocrisy", then, it's not so bad ;)
It will first lead to a world where fake videos of celebrities will be used to scam you, and your own voice will be used to scam your relatives. Both of those are happening today.

Ironically, this will lead to a work where we need to use these fake personas online to not have our lives messed with offline.

I don’t fully agree with your first paragraph, but I do agree with the second one.
Not directly, but:

1. taxes - I pay hefty taxes on fuel (in the UK) and tax on owning a car
2. insurance - I have to have an insurance policy that will pay for any damage to third parties. The payment for those externalities is pooled, but paid.

Not perfect, and not entirely, but a lot of it is paid.
thank you. will try
I swerved hard on a girl obsessed with Madeleine Albright. I'm glad I got out and around that because I never really liked the look of that older woman.
You start out disputing my claim…and end by reinforcing it.
No, they don't! They're not even remotely comparable. Have you actually tried a setup like this?
Workday is like 40th percentile bad software - there is worse enterprise software (SAP) and worse recruiting software (anyone ever have to work with iCIMS?).
Depending on the answer, getting a personal trainer that keeps count and notes would be an option too.
You say it like that it is desirable. Unfortunately people perform better when they have nicotine, so the effect for society as a whole is non negligible if a huge mass of people get a slight performance bounce.

Smoking is annoying, disgusting, unhealthy etc. but we are way too quick to dismiss the possibility that nicotine itself may have been a civilization booster.
looks useful, I'm going to take time to read that
But these gamers don't live in those countries. It just seems like at best some kind of phony outrage, if not completely astroturf.
Theoretically, yes.

But I see this more often assumed than demonstrated.
Al Jazeera is not engaged in an "information war" against Israel. Al Jazeera is the major independent media organization operating in Gaza, and one of the main sources of accurate information about the conflict. That's what angers the Israeli government.
Not sure why you're being down voted, this is definitely true.
I've often wondered if our complete demonization of all smoking was a bit of a disservice to the sporadic smoke that likely helped with managing one's weight which has its own health benefits.
Could you share how do you combine the hourly cost with wattage readings?
I just want my mango pods back... Seems really arbitrary to ban things on a flavor by flavor basis. I don't see anybody banning fruity flavored vodka.
Machine learning (ML) models are revolutionizing industries with their predictive capabilities, but their effectiveness hinges on robust validation processes. In this article, we unravel the intricacies of ML model validation and explore the techniques essential for ensuring model reliability and performance.
Understanding ML Model Validation
Model validation is the process of assessing the performance and generalization ability of ML models using independent datasets. It involves testing the model's predictions on unseen data to gauge its accuracy, robustness, and ability to generalize to new instances.
Cross-Validation Techniques
Cross-validation is a cornerstone of ML model validation, allowing for rigorous assessment of model performance. Common cross-validation techniques include:
K-Fold Cross-Validation: The dataset is divided into K subsets, with each subset used as a validation set while the remaining data is used for training. This process is repeated K times, with each subset serving as the validation set once.
Stratified K-Fold Cross-Validation: Similar to K-Fold, but ensures that each fold contains a proportional representation of each class, particularly useful for imbalanced datasets.
Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation (LOOCV): Each data point is used as a validation set once, with the model trained on all other data points. This approach provides a robust assessment but can be computationally expensive for large datasets.
Metrics for Model Evaluation
Several metrics are employed to evaluate ML model performance during validation:
Accuracy: Measures the proportion of correct predictions made by the model.
Precision: Evaluates the accuracy of positive predictions, indicating the model's ability to avoid false positives.
Recall: Measures the model's ability to identify all relevant instances, indicating its sensitivity to true positives.
F1 Score: Represents the harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a balanced assessment of the model's performance.
Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Selection
Hyperparameter tuning involves optimizing the model's parameters to improve performance. Techniques such as grid search and random search are commonly employed to identify the optimal hyperparameters. Additionally, model selection involves comparing the performance of different ML algorithms to choose the most suitable one for the task at hand.
Conclusion
Effective ML model validation is crucial for ensuring the reliability and performance of machine learning systems. By employing rigorous cross-validation techniques, evaluating performance metrics, and fine-tuning hyperparameters, data scientists can build robust and reliable ML models capable of delivering accurate predictions and driving actionable insights. Learn more about ML model validation here.
Yes: A lie to boost the morale of a country fighting a defensive war against a genocidal dictatorship is unambiguously a better lie than the lies of the genocidal dictatorship to rile up its populace to more effectively execute the genocidal war.

My country lied to its populace during WW2 to boost morale in its fight against Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany lied to its populace to more effectively execute the holocaust. They are not the same.

So it's true, not all lies are equally bad, hope that helps. Most learn that as children.
This was addressing the second point which is relevant to the headline: "There's no way Meta is paying retail."
There is no reason those barons can't make money on top of AGPLv3 software too, its easy to comply with if they thought anyone would bother to enforce the license.

Also, if you have a desirable app that they want to make money off, they have the ability to just reimplement it from scratch, or make a protocol-compatible equivalent, so the license does not matter in the slightest to them.
https://whereto.stream/tv/235540
> For the game that has micro transactions

Compared to most other live service games around, the MTX in Helldivers 2 is both unobtrusive and minimal

A vast majority of the content is earned in game, with no way to purchase it with MTX. Also you earn the premium currency in the game by playing, so there no content locked out permanently behind MTX purchases

It's a move in the right direction compared to most games with MTX, they do deserve some credit here even if they aren't perfect
The national debt interest is 2 trillion a year and instead of taxing the middle class is paying them to use their money.

I think the middle class should get paid to use our money as well.
You are conflating the harms of the delivery mechanism with the harms of the substance.

Nicotine gum is relatively harmless for example. Or perhaps imbibe on a Nicotini[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotini
The article has several citations from OEMs on why (PDF):

https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letters_of_autom...

"Our decision to not support AM radio was primarily linked to our electrification strategy. If Volvo Cars had continued to provide AM radio, our BEVs and PHEVs likely would have experienced EMC disturbances and this could result in poor performance. "
Tiobe 2024 May Headline: Fortran in the top 10, what is going on?
humans could just suck it up and, you know, make earth not suck

like if we can't terraform terra, how tf are we doing that to a barren rock 1 year away with no atmosphere?
What about body's response? Is it easy to curb?

I was drinking 2 liters of coffee per day while finishing my Ph.D.. Next week I wasn't drinking, and after that I occasionally drank half a cup per day. This was seven years ago, and I still drink half a cup, because I like the taste of coffee.

I have at least a dozen vaping friends who said they started to stop smoking. Now at least half of them have heavily souped up, customized e-cigs. Two of them are making their own liquids with nicotine, rest are using bog-standard vapes.

None of them stopped smoking or nicotine intake, which was the goal of all of them.
But those projects were purely American funded projects. Meta profits from the entire globe. So I don't think a comparison to the US GDP is completely relevant.
video abstract direct link (40.7MB mp4):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960378/bin/40...
You can knock almost a third off that fastest time by building with `-static`. In something that is completely trivial like reading the clock via vDSO the indirect call overhead of dynamic libc linking becomes huge. `-static` eliminates one level of indirect calls. The indirect vDSO call remains, though.

% ./clocktest | rg MONOTONIC_COARSE
MONOTONIC_COARSE : 2.2ns percall
Show HN: From toy cars to game sprites [video]
I am not a 3D artist, so I had the idea of using toy cars to make my game. Many people liked this idea, so I made this video where I show the process.
The existence of homomorphic encryption doesn't give me any more money to buy compute time on servers, nor does it make compute servers any cheaper. Those are completely orthogonal. So, it may make it so that people with money can do nasty things on servers undetected, but it absolutely does not make it so everyone on earth can.
I took the Deep Learning course [1] by deeplearning.ai in the past, and their resources where incredibly good IMHO. Hence, I would suggest to take a look at their NLP specialization [2].

+1000 to "Neural networks: zero to hero" already mentioned as well.

[1] https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/deep-learning-specializa...
[2] https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/natural-language-process...
> build it and they will come.

It might be true, but it might not be.

Many places in UK have put a lot of effort into providing cycle lanes, prioritising cyclists over cars and pedestrians to do so. It has not worked. They built it and no one came. Its pretty clear that the solution here is more and cheaper public transport. I think fixed price tickets giving you unlimited usage, better bus services to rail stations, etc. are the right approach.

I hate driving, but there are some places that it is impractical to go to without a car, and times when public transport is not available. These should be minimised.
There's nothing undemocratic about banning foreign propaganda or news outlets.

Illiberal maybe, but not undemocratic.
> Essentially, making them separate is a physical infrastructure form of making incorrect states non-representable.

Huh, that's a great example, because it also shows why making light poles double as bollards is an alluring idea. A scenario I see somewhat often is when you need to change some existing code working on a piece of state, because now that piece of state actually has two mutually exclusive substates. Say, Auth = {username, password} becomes Auth = {username, password or path to certificate }.

The easy solution would be to add the new properties and perhaps mark them and their conflicting counterparts optional - this means you have to refactor only the type definition and maaaybe some points of use of the now-conflicting substate. In our example, Auth = {username, password?, certificate? = nullopt}.

The proper solution would be to "make incorrect states non-representable", representing the substates directly -- Auth = {username, {password | certificate }. Or perhaps, Auth = {PasswordAuth | CertificateAuth}, PasswordAuth = {username, password}, CertificateAuth = {username, path to certificate}. Now this is a much more substantial change, and you'll end up touching and possibly changing every place Auth is used.

Under resource constraints (such as time), the easy option is very, very tempting :).
Not this again.

Maybe one day they should measure the amount of time they spend on this and improve their own productivity by not wasting so much time chasing a fool's errand.
No, The whole thing starts when they launch a rocket outside of our atmosphere to collect samples and then it comes back down.

That bacteria basically evolves to consume energy and evolve to different forms of energy. Like at first it is pulling apart minerals in rocks to eventually pulling plastic bonds apart. Eventually it becomes harmless because energy is abundant on Earth and it seems to be intelligent as it evolves very quickly, and it only kills people in the early evolutions (by accident) and doesn't end up killing the scientists in the lab. Or the rest of life on earth.
> At least cigarettes made people skinny and hot.

Until you lean in for a kiss, or even a hug.
"I'm part of the enshittification of the internet, but look HOW MUCH MONEY I MADE!" /s

God I hate this shit.
Lines of code. Case closed!
> Zionism is a movement to fulfill the right for Jewish self-determination in their native land of thousands of years.

This is the definition that makes Zionism troubling.

Why not just disenfranchise and/or murder any non-Jewish person within the borders of the Jewish people's native land?
Which means you need to throw out half of the initial version and rewrite it!
Easier != Easy
It has been a long time since I thought of sturbucks in the US as hyped. In my world it is for 'basic' people.
Project Hail Mary
This is also my preferred control scheme, and I bought one a few years ago.

To see what's easy to find now, I typed "microwave oven knobs" into amazon.com and got several with the classic mechanical timer and power knob design. Most of those are relatively small, but "commercial microwave oven" found some larger ones.
Last time I tried IPFS it was really slow, if you have to run a node to serve files then direct downloads are much better.

A simple extension would do, that manages models and exposes an interface to window so webapps can call it.

Like window.llm.generate({model,prompt})
The developer was actively encouraging their players to ask for refunds and leave negative reviews

Their community managers started off on the wrong foot with how they reacted, but issued strong apologies and quickly changed track. The CEO himself was tweeting about his own culpability in the mess and encouraging unhappy people to make their voices heard in reviews

So... Yes
Far-right conservatives in Germany have claimed to be persecuted in this way for a long time, claiming that they aren't antisemitic. My point is that it's nothing new.
That's a very interesting, but completely ad-hoc theory.

The problem with these is that there are almost always equally plausible theories, and it's really hard to figure out which is correct.

Especially given the huge amount of effort that has gone into research on tobacco and nicotine (I guess millions of hours, if not more), I would definitely NOT say we are too quick to dismiss the possibility.

I'm sure you can find an interesting econometric paper presenting this argument, but then it would be more credible.
Google? The place that gave us the current cloud native complexity trap?
Time viewed before closing the page could be a metric though.
Lot of books, buddy. You might want to start with this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Cons...
Why are things? Reality is falsely valued.
The problem came from the fact that sporadic smoking didn't serve the profits of tobacco companies in the way they would have liked.

The shoving of high-fructose corn syrup and other calorie-rich ingredients into everything sold in the US to increase consumption (again, for profits) has a much greater impact on weight management, though.
The swan, the pike, and the crawfish.
Legitimately curious, what do people not like about Indeed?

I haven't had to use it, but it seems popular.
You don't want to visit Pen's Island?
I know swift has poor performance, but not expect they did it purposely.
Why does it bother you? Maybe they have a deep essay on the subject that would be really impactful.
20 years from now the cigarette will have a comeback as "totally natural", " 100% bio", "no batteries needed"...
Of course they do! Thanks for the link.